4 thoughts on “RIP, Another Period

  1. I haven’t watched every episode, but one of my favorites is the one where they went to Harriet Tubman for advice on how to become famous and she started talking about marketing and brand, which led them to try to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

  2. For me, the two highlights were:

    The Helen Keller episode featuring the real-life Deaf actress Shoshannah Stern, which miraculously managed to be funny without being offensive

    The song “I’ll F**k You in Heaven,” the perfect mockery of forbidden love (and I adore forbidden love stories): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOsvfl-PGqk

  3. So sad. I loved the show, especially since I LOATHED Downtown Abbey. A comic TV representation of critic Mary Collum’s witticism to Hemingway — “The only difference between the rich and other people is that the rich have more money.” Which Hemingway stole and added Fitzgerald for verisimilitude. For more on how a woman once more lost credit for a killer bon mot, cf: https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/13/books/l-the-rich-are-different-907188.html

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